Osceola events recall decades at Polk County
A condensed retrospective notes ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and sixty years of Osceola and Polk County history. Entries cover public figures, civic changes, weddings, births, deaths, and notable anniversaries with names like LeRoy, Gustafson, and Kiessel, plus local institutions and area towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George LeRoy
Scouts
Overland Sand & Gravel
Stromsburg
J. H. Gustafsons
Jeannine Heckman
Timothy Darnauer
Lincoln
Theodore Kiessel
Bald
Emil Kubicek
Jack Goetz
Shelby
Marlins Hills
Missouri Valley
Raymond Millers
Lee Andersons
Osceola
Duane Johnson
Leonard Wieseman
South Osceola
Irvin Gustafson
John Albers
Gary Conrad
Burton Brazee
Valentine
State Department of ‘Roads and Irrigation
Vr. H. Clark
IOOF
York
Mrs. Clark
R. L. Anderson
Aken
Anderson
S.3
Harless
Polk
Gust Monson
Quentin Query
Germany
Jesse J. Query
Benedict
George Mace
Boden
Gospel Ridge
W. E. Snider
J. L. Makeever
Peeksill
N. Y
Makeevers
New York
Makeever
J. H. Jarmin
Albert Anderson
Stromsburg Park Project Completed
The final audit closes the development of Stromsburg Buckley Park with facilities including restrooms shelter building sidewalks a foot bridge sewer and water extensions picnic tables grills roads and playground equipment bleachers lighting and a backstop. Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund contributed 49150, Nebraska paid 7125, and Stromsburg city contributed 50325. Willard Barbee, director of the Game and Parks Commission, serves as liaison to the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation for the fund at the federal level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stromsburg
Buckley Park
Game and Parks Commission
Greens Chapel social notes and visitors
Mrs Ansel Lindquist visited Blanche Donelson at Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln last Thursday. Wallace Samuelson and family hosted dinners in Norris Anderson and Ronald Ellison homes. Kent Torell returned to the University of Nebraska. The Wallace McKeags of Shelby hosted a six o clock dinner with Clyde Hennings Elmer Gleim and Eva Kel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ansel Lindquist
Blanche Donelson
Bryan Memorial
Lincoln
Wallace Samuelson
Norris Anderson
Ronald Ellison
Gresham
Wallace Samuelsons
Herb Hanson
Harlan Younglunds
Clifford Younglund
Kent Torell
University of Nebraska
Kent
Byron Torells
Harry Obrist
Stanley Harlesses
Wallace McKeags
Shelby
Clyde Hennings
Elmer Gleims
Eva Kel
Cookie Duster Extension Club
Raymond Burke
Keith Kinberg
Albert Teegerstrom
Earl Burke
Albert Teegerstroms
Roger Torell
Quintin Torells
Lester Rystrom
Quintin Torell
Hume Sloan
Hot Springs
Ark
Alma Carlson
George Olson
Cindy Olson
Osceola Social Roundup Highlights Local Visits and Holidays
The Osceola News items list numerous social visits and gatherings. Guests include the Teegerstrom, Burke, Torell, Ekstrom, Carlson, Olson, Jones, Swanson, Hultman, Rodig, Massie, Gleim, Sterner, Joy, Tibbetts, McMeekin, Johnston, Bond, Umstead, Franco, and Schott families plus friends from Lincoln, Denver, Omaha, Roggen, Kit Carson, and Colombo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Larson
Rolland Ekstrom
Ekstroms
Robert Carey
Ridge
Mauritz Swanson
Myrtle Hultman
Denver
Oscar Jones
Roger Rodrigs
Friend
Country Club
John Massie
Columbus
Harry Locke
Kit Carson
Colo
Phyllis Seehoff
Roggen
Ronald Massie
Dale Hanson
Lincoln
Chas. Massie
Elmer Gleim
Art Schlondorf
Clarks
Monte
Kelly Grossnicklaus
Duane Sterner
Neal Brighams
Shelby
Philip Nyberg
Jim Chapin
Marsha
Mary Ellen Nyberg
Omaha
Thilaka Kandiah
Colombo
Ceylon
Montesorri School
Community Notes Include Visits And Funeral Gatherings
The notice lists several local social events and family visits from Ames Indiana Anchorage and Albion plus a funeral for Harold Jones in Columbus. It also records Christmas gatherings at Stromsburg and a funeral for John Massie at St Bonaventure Church. A Nebraska Job Service interviewer will be in Osceola January 22 from 10 to 11 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Rosenberry
Ames
Harold Jones
Gary Conrad
Shane
Anchorage
Alaska
Wayne Andersons
Melvin Atwaters
Ray Whiting
Albion
Elmer Gleim
Bob Kreis
Stromsburg
Chas. Massie
Massie
John
St. Bonaventure Church
Columbus
J. Woboril
Nebraska
Division of Employment
State Department of Labor
Osceola
Also Mentioned on This Page
Percy Knight
J. C. Penney Co
United States
Sigrid Anderson
Manocello
Wash
Melfid ‘Anderson
Augustana
Rock Island
Pauline Snider
Columbia
Snider
Christian College
Wm. Powers
College View
C. L. Hutton
K. P. Hultgren
D. B. Hulquest
K. A. Cornish
Phil B. Campbell
W. G. Herrmann
H. H. Cox
O. E. Mickey
Arthur
C. M. Humphrey
H. A. Taylor
John Alexander Inks
Fremont
M. F. Smith
Richard Dahle
G. H. Presson
Peter Widge
Polk Co. Telephone Co
Mable E. Chindgren
Meadowbrook
Ore
P. O. Chindgren
Swede Home
Oregon
Lulu Pheasant
George Carson
Aiheortel
Mills & Beebe
Mattie Miller
David City
Gladys Schwab
Stromsburg Park
Patronize Record
Greens Chapel
Cyndee Carlson
Goldie Bond
Alton Bond
Washington
Brian Umstead
Silver Creek
Bill Umstead
Norman Michener
Joseph Schott
Ray Schott
Eugene Ronspies
Pierce
R. B. Ronspies
Dennis Ronspies
E. C
Wayne Anderson
Dennis Kubiceks
Myron Barker
Martin Anderson
Glenn Anderson
Annie. Jeffrey Hospital
J. Williams
M. D
Estaad
Spd
Federal
Behay
Chateau
Phinney-Walker
Phinney
Walter
Gots
Lincol
Prinnae
Si ‘Merv,Clogk
P.O
Lincoln, Nebraska
Social Security
Leo Cockson
Bellwood
Godig
Merv. Dick
Grubaugh Brothers Auctioneers and Clerks Office
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